samba - Dec 2010 - samba to act as bdc for w2k8 AD?

Hello everybody,

could samba (version 3 or 4) act as a "bdc" for an w2k8/r2 AD?

There's one external office with a few users only, and there will be a 
samba-based system for file-storage - so if that system could also do 
the user-authentication for all users there it'd be nearly perfect ...

Have a nice weekend!
Torsten

Samba 3 won't work as a BDC for a Windows PDC.  I don't think Samba 4
would
either but you have to check the documentation at samba.org.

But you could probably make the samba server a member server in the Windows
domain-  assuming that the WAN connection between the two is persistent and
reliable.   Or you could just have the external office in a 2nd domain with
trusts between the domains.   
  

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Subject: [Samba] samba to act as bdc for w2k8 AD?

Hello everybody,

could samba (version 3 or 4) act as a "bdc" for an w2k8/r2 AD?

There's one external office with a few users only, and there will be a 
samba-based system for file-storage - so if that system could also do 
the user-authentication for all users there it'd be nearly perfect ...

Have a nice weekend!
Torsten
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Thanks a lot for your answers! :)

So we'd wait (its not that urgent) for version Samba 4 Alpha 14, and 
give it a try.
We don't use MS-Exchange there, or MS-SQL or things like that.
It's just an small external office with 8 collegues.

Have a nice day
Torsten